Alabama · Private foundation
James Rushton I Foundation
To provide high quality early childhood education programs and services to children between zero and three years of age. Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations James Rushton I Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $1.4M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $785k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Rushton Early Learning Center Inc | $2,111,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Childcare Resources | $60,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Child Care Resource Center | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Impact America | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| VOICES for Alabama's Children | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama
How this is measured
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About James Rushton I Foundation
- How much does James Rushton I Foundation give?
- James Rushton I Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $1,539,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James Rushton I Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Community Improvement (27%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
- Who are James Rushton I Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: James Rushton Early Learning Center Inc ($2.1M), Childcare Resources ($60k), Child Care Resource Center ($60k).
- Does James Rushton I Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James Rushton I Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James Rushton I Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is James Rushton I Foundation based?
- James Rushton I Foundation is based in AL.
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